PP&L Corp Among American Tradition Partnership Bankrollers

Today, PBS and ProPublica have posted the contents of the American Tradition Partnership’s bank records, which include some donor records from the 2010 election cycle. A Montana judge ordered that the information be made public last week. Among the groups funders is Pennsylvania Power & Light, or PP&L as it likes to be known in Montana (to eliminate the need to remind people where it is headquartered.)

Somebody needs to get all the addresses and put together an interactive map, like the sex offender registry, but for crimes against democracy.

Color code for those who were confirmed donors and for those like MPI and PERC and such who ended up in the target list. And then shade the map to show the areas of the state represented by legislators caught up in the scandal.

Now we know why ATP had the spinoff organizations with other names. They would use the affiliated groups like Taxpayers for Liberty and Montana Growth Network to campaign against GOP legislators who were ATP donors–that why the donors would never know they were donating to their own campaign attacks. Case in point, Bruce Tutvedt. He’s an ATP donor, so ATP’s “Taxpayers for Liberty” ran the attack mailers against him so he wouldn’t find out.

Twenty-nine states have enacted Renewable Portfolio Standards in the last decade or so. It remains to be seen how the seeming shift in the political climate over the last few days might affect ALEC’s efforts to rescind them.

PPL should be embarrassed. They knowingly underwrite lies and potentially illegal activity- the courts continue to have a roll in sorting out this disaster and its a good thing. These fools brought us deregulation, the sham closure of the billings corrette plant they claimed was due to EPA regulation to try to defeat Tester and Bullock. So it’s not surprising they would be involved in the ATP corruption scandal too.

All three of the Republican candidates that ran for and won PSC seats advocated the repeal of the Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS). And the language in their campaign literature echoes that in the bill written by ALEC. There is no doubt in my mind that the Big Coal interests (including PP&L) have been bankrolling their campaigns through shadow groups like ATP. My hunch is that they are also behind the slanderous ads against Bullock, who as governor will have veto power over such bills.

What a bunch-o friggin’ dildos! No WONDER the once proud Grand Old Party has become a laffing stock! Hell, I REMEMBER Barry Goldwater, Mark Hatfield, et al. THEY were real conservatives who LAFFED at these dildos!

I wish I could say that I eat shit food there, but I don’t. But if I did, I’d quit! But I DO know lots of folks who do eat there, and are good Dems and progressives. I’ll let them know what gives with this dildo!